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By Cirium2021-04-21T01:24:00+01:00
Indonesia’s aviation sector is expected to make a full recovery by 2026, contingent on vaccines and the successful containment of the pandemic.
Domestic and international flight volumes are predicted to return to pre-pandemic levels in 2024 and in 2026, respectively, according to a white paper by Padjadjaran University (UNPAD) and commissioned by the Indonesia National Air Carriers Association (INACA).
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A Lion Air 737-900ER
At a 15 April virtual presentation of the white paper, UNPAD researchers outlined three recovery scenarios ranging from optimistic to moderate to pessimistic.
Under the moderate outlook, they expect domestic air travel recovery to start in early 2022 and international air traffic to improve by the end of 2023. They predict domestic passenger volumes will reach nearly 78.7 million in December 2024, almost surpassing the 79 million passengers in 2019.
A Boeing 777-300ER in Garuda Indonesia s masked livery is parked in the Garuda Maintenance Facility hangar at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in this undated handout photo. (Garuda Indonesia/File)
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia will be key to recovering aviation demand in Southeast Asia over the next two decades, according to American aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co, one of the world’s biggest.
Boeing vice president commercial marketing Darren Hulst said the company expected to deliver 4,400 new aircraft to Southeast Asia as the region recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2039.
Of the figure, a quarter would go to Indonesia.
Aviation industry needs incentives to recover: INACA 26th February 2021
Illustration - Airplanes parked at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, Banten. (ANTARA/HO-Transportation Ministry/sh)
For the aviation sector to recover, we need tax incentives and various airport fees. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia’s aviation industry, which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, will need government incentives to recover, chairman of the Indonesia National Air Carriers Association (INACA), Denon Prawiraatmadja, said.
“For the aviation sector to recover, we need tax incentives and various airport fees, Denon said in a statement issued here on Friday.
The aviation industry contributes more than 2.6 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides jobs to 4.2 million workers, he noted.